XIKAR Xi Ultra Slim Cigar Cutter
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If you're in need
of the perfect gift for the cigar-lover in your family
circle but you're not looking to be as spendy as high-end
cigars consider the classic and sleek
XIKAR Xi Ultra Slim Cigar Cutter. It's the kind of gift
that's small enough to be given without too much of a
personal investment but still unique and tasteful enough to
avoid being passed off as just a token effort. Plus, being
barely thicker than a credit card and weighing only 1.5oz,
it would also make a perfect stocking stuffer. $49.99
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World's
Oldest Cognac for $6,000 a Shot
The luxe
Lanesborough Hotel in London has just acquired the
world's oldest bottle of cognac, distilled in 1770, and is
offering it to patrons of their plush Library Bar (above)
for £4,000, or about $6,000, per shot. That's considerably
more than the ultra-expensive Louis XIII Black Pearl Magnum
cognac my colleague Lisa Palladino
wrote about last summer, which cost $2,500 per shot. In
addition to the 240-year-old tipple, the Lanesborough, a St.
Regis property, just installed a new walk-in cigar humidor,
the first of its kind in a
London hotel. The humidor houses 1,000 cigars and
contains 25 private lockers for the personal collections of
top patrons, who can enjoy Cuban and even pre-Castro smokes
in the hotel's posh Garden Room.
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Macassar
Ebony Humidor by Ghisò
Looking for the perfect gift for the man who already seems
to have everything? Well here's an idea that's sure to score
you some points in the "classy" department (as well as put a
significant dent in your wallet). It's the
Macassar Ebony Humidor by Ghisò and it's both beautiful
and, due to it's limited edition of just 100 pieces, rare.
It features a humidifier and multi-tiered trays that can
hold 80-100 cigars. Get your Christmas shopping done now, or
start hinting so others can! $3,424
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Something
Spooky To Smoke For Halloween
Need something spooky to smoke for your Halloween party? Then you may want to visit one of the "unlucky" 13 retailers chosen to stock this year's Tatuaje Monster cigar. Tatuaje's 2008 monster, known as the Frank in reference to Frankenstein, is a 7 5/8 inch by 49 ring cigar which is box pressed giving it a square appearance just like poor old Frankenstein's head. The wrapper looks sewn together and the cigar band is a Frankenstein-skin green. The Frank comes in a coffin-shaped box of 13 and sells for $13 per stick.How many boxes are available? Why, 666 of course.
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Cigar
-- La Escepcion
The most expensive cigar is the brand of La Escepcion, which was made at the Partagas factory.Production of the brand was discontinued in 1985. The “Jose Gener Gran Gener” was the best cigar ever made by La Excepcion and is now a collector’s item. It was during it's time a full flavored medium strength Havana. There are very few left in the word of this popular 9-inch long and 24 ring gauge Havana. If you do get your hands on one, it will cost you a pretty penny or two. The price of just one of these cigars today is £367 or approximately $682.80 USD.
Cigarettes
You can find all kinds of unique tobacco products for
every brand on the market; however, Lucky Strike has the top
billing for the most expensive cigarettes. In 2006, Lucky
Strike created a one-off pack. The package that was created
is what was so stunning. The cigarettes were placed in an
18-carat white gold package with one diamond and one ruby.
The cigarette package was placed on display at various
European airports throughout 2006 with smaller look-alike
packs for sale in specific airports. The most expensive pack
of Lucky Strikes had a price tag of $100,000 and was used to
heighten the sales of the Lucky Strike brand.
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$16,000
Box of Pre-Embargo Cuban Cigars at Auction
A rare box of pre-embargo
Romeo y Julieta Cuban cigars stars in
Christie's Fine and Rare Wines and Vintage Cigars sale
in London this Thursday. Expected to fetch up to $16,000,
the box of 100 cigars from Winston Churchill's favored
brand, labeled "Selección de Luxe", was originally purchased
at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York prior to the enactment of
the
U.S. embargo against Cuba in 1962. The mint condition
cigars in a wooden presentation case consist of 25 Petit
Coronas, 25 Coronas, and 25 each of two sizes of Perfectos.
Also featured in the luxurious sale are several cases of
vintage
Krug champagne, headed by a couple cases of Vintage 1985
estimated at about $3,000 each.
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Why
Women Smoke Cigars
Why do women smoke cigars? The reasons may differ from the
reasons that men smoke them. Research conducted by the
Association for Women Cigar Smokers in cooperation with
Cigar Research found that 97% of men feel peaceful when
smoking cigars but only 76% of women feel that way.
Instead as Cigar Cyclopedia reports "women responded
that they feel powerful (24%), attractive (25%), strong
(15%), fun (43%), and rebellious (22%) when cigar smoking."
Men reported these same feelings in lower numbers.
The survey also revealed that women are overwhelmingly brand
loyal and that although they buy cigars online they also
shop in stores where they feel welcome and are not treated
as amateurs. They are also mostly not swayed by box or label
design and 59% of the women surveyed said their motivation
for smoking cigars was what I think is the best reason of
all, the taste.
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Cigar
Auction For Charity
The Arturo Fuente and J.C. Newman families are auctioning
off dozens of highly prized cigars to raise money for their
foundation, the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, which
donates proceeds to impoverished children living in the
Dominican Republic, where the lauded cigars are produced.
The foundation has already raised over $3 million for needy
kids.
The auction will go on for another several days, though
cigar connoisseurs are already in a bidding war over a
selection of OpusX cigars from Carlos Fuente Jr.'s personal
collection. With three days left before this particular
auction's end, 37 eager bidders have notched the price to
$6,500.
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Dunhill Anniversary Edition Cigars
The hot cigar to get your hands on might just be the new
offering from Dunhill. Per
Cigar Aficionado, the Dunhill Anniversary Edition, which
celebrates 100 years of the Dunhill cigar brand, will be
limited to 20,000 cigars.
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The cigars will be made in Nicaragua by the Toraños and
distributed by C.A.O. International Inc. So far all that is
known is that the cigars will have a blend similar to the
Dunhill Signed Range which uses Nicaraguan and Dominican
filler tobaccos aged three years and bound in authentic
African Cameroon leaf and a Cuban seed Nicaraguan wrappers.
The new cigars will, according to Dunhill brand manager
Bruce Lewis, have a little more finesse and sweetness. Want
yours? They should be out mid-fall of this year.
Carnegie Club Selects "Cigars of Summer"
The
Carnegie Club, one of Manhattan's only cigar/cocktail
lounges to survive the draconian smoking ban in style, is
celebrating the onset of warmer weather with a "Cigars of
Summer" selection specifically tailored to New York fat cats
who head out of town on the weekends. The club's "Summer
Beach Pack," for $45, includes three light, creamy robusto
cigars, an Avo Classic Robusto, Fonseca Vintage Robusto, and
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Exhibition #3, all of which are
specially chosen to suit strolling the sands. The "Hamptons
Weekend Pack," for $125, consists of a
Montecristo #2, Greycliff Château Grand Cru Pirate, and
a Davidoff Anniversario #3, all high-end smokes suited to
the pricey vacation spot. The Carnegie Club is part of Mark
Grossich's sophisticated cocktail lounge empire, which
includes the amazing
Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Station, one of our
favorite spaces in all of New York.
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